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Review: “Drones Don’t Kill People” by Annalee Newitz

This speculative tale envisions the end of the 21st Century when governments utilize AI-adapted drones to carry out complex missions of assassination, espionage and war. A group of drones, in synthesizing information, find a cyber-network about drones that includes instructions on how to upload more prosocial ethically motivated AI and how to unlocked drones from the systems that guide them. They experiment on themselves . . .

The themes of AI discovering ethics, and AI subverting the will of its employers are not a new ones. Nor is having the AI entity tell their own tale and discovery process. Regardless, the tale is enjoyable.